Battle War; Magic, Sword and Dragon

The Stupid Mission

"This may be something you already know, but I'll keep explaining it. Witches can create magic with a wide variety of elements. We are currently familiar with 4 basic elements and 4 additional elements."

Otome drawing on the board. Then proceed.

"The basic elements are Water, Fire, Wind and Earth. While the additional elements of Lightning, Metal, Sound and Wood. Witches with the basic elements were the witches with the most number, whereas others were arguably quite rare since these were influenced by lineages."

Finished drawing the eight elements, Otome again drew another element.

"Every mage can normally use one element, but that doesn't mean no one can use more than one element. This situation is usually affected by the magic of the witch. The simplest example, the magician A is fire element, but the form of magic is a golem. The golem had the power of the earth element, so the magician could use two types of elements. Well. situations like this are very rare, so don't expect too much."

Today the lesson began without Kuro the F rank, but instead the 1-2 class transfer student attendance was arguably rare.

The transfer student is a young man of noble descent like Laila named Charl Ven Cellvain. Not only that, his handsome and charismatic face made many girls in class 1-2 become fans. In short, she looks like Laila.

Charl is also an S rank, but a Contractor.

"Until here, is there a question?"

Serriv suddenly raised his hand.

"Master, aren't there still two more elements that Sensei hasn't mentioned yet, namely the Dark element and the Sacred element."

"....Mom just wanted to explain. But I'm glad you're aware of it."

Otome then continued.

"In addition to the eight elements, there are two more elements known as the rarest. It is the element of darkness and the element of holiness. The element of darkness is known as the element with the most destructive power, while the sacred element is the element known as the magic eraser element. Speaking of sacred elements, emperors and imperial princesses were the owners of sacred elements. But I'm sure you know the only one with the dark element.."

"The Demon King"

"Yupps. Right enough. It's a good thing there aren't any more dark element mages after the Demon King, so we don't have to worry about Light War being repeated. I'm me. ."

Grade 1-2 students smiled bitterly upon hearing Otome's dangerous joke.

The strength of the Demon King that was so unique and rare made him revered even though he made great damage. Then because the power of the dark element is still mysterious other than destruction, then many have a theory that the Demon King has not died.

It had often been found that groups of worshippers attempted to resurrect the Demon King in strange and inhumane ways, but all of that ended in great failure.

Now the attempt to resurrect the Demon King was arguably a madman's attempt, but still some did.

"Next we will discuss the Holy element. As the name suggests this magic element has a special power that is able to purify other elements, or rather remove other elements. This makes the sacred element also known as anti-magic."

Otome is back to drawing.

"Because of this power, only the sacred element is able to match the element of darkness. Even history records without the sacred element, the Demon King cannot be defeated. The most famous saint element magician and at the same time the hero who saved the world from the Demon King was the founder of the empire. You should be proud of this. Next we'll discuss another topic."

Otome picked up a small stick and hit the blackboard with the end of the stick.

In an instant, the blank whiteboard showed the image and various captions of that image. The picture is-

"Mobile?" laila.

Not just cell phones. Radio, television, pistols, bombs are also present. The only similarity of the image is that it is the result of the development of magic technology.

Realizing this similarity, they understood the topic that Otome would discuss next.

"We live in the era of modern magic, so you must know the objects on the board. You all know how to use it, but do you know the origin of your phone?"

"..............."

Everything's silent. They didn't think about it that far.

"Now have you heard the legend that the Demon King is actually a witch from another world?"

""""?!""""

All the students of grade 1-2 were shocked, while Otome smiled as she enjoyed the expressions of her students.

"This theory emerged after the discovery of several books belonging to the Demon King that have a language that does not exist in our world. But the strongest evidence is a book about technologies that do not exist in our world: cell phones, radios and much more. The question now is if the theory is correct, what happens that Demon King never comes to our world?"

"..............."

No one answered because no one knew the answer. No. gabe. More precisely no one dared to answer because no one wanted to imagine it.

The development of magic technology was indeed advancing, but without the Demon King, how much longer would they be able to enjoy a cell phone, radio or tv?

"Alright, our lesson is enough to get here. And now you know what you have to do, right? Oh yeah, that topic works as PR. I want to hear your opinion."

Otome's smile made the feathers of the students of class 1-2 stand up. It was time to run around the lake again.

He's a real devil. This is because the only one who does running around the lake is only class 1-2.

In the women's dressing room, Laila took off her shirt and skirt. Now she only wears white underwear and a bra.

He hung up his uniform and changed the jersey uniform that was their sports uniform.

Unexpectedly, Alva and Alvi come near Laila.

"Laila, do you know where Kuro is?"

"Eitherway. Maybe he's dead."

""Eh?""

Alva and Alvi are shocked when they hear Laila's cold answer. It also made them realize that something happened last night.

"That's it. I don't give a shit about him. But why are you looking for him? Does it have anything to do with him not going to school today?"

Laila had finished getting dressed and was staring at the two of them.

"..... .Yeah that too. But we're looking for her because we want to thank her for buying her a cake from Astrea Palace."

"Kue?"

"Yupp. very delicious cake.."

What does all this mean?

If Alva and Alvi were sent a chocolate cake bought at Astrea Palace, wouldn't that mean Kuro came to Astrea Palace last night?

But why didn't he come? Is it because she saw Laila chatting with two handsome men?

".............."

I don't know why Laila's starting to realize that she's guilty of this.

No. gabe. Given the nature of Kuro, Laila understands that Kuro did not come because it was just a trivial matter.

After changing clothes, Laila, Alvi and Alva once again formed a group. While Serriv was in another group not with the three of them.

The weather today is cloudy like it was two days ago. This made the students of grade 1-2 a little excited.

"Everybody gathered?"

Otome asked while carrying an umbrella again. As usual, he prepared a snack.

"You know the rules, right? So I don't have to explain anymore. Charl, you understand that, too, right?"

"I already understand. The point is we just ran without magic, right?"

"good. That's how S-levels should be. But there are two things I need to tell you. First, there's no party like 2 days ago, well, it's because Kuro isn't here now. Second, the punishment this time is 2 times that of the previous 100 km, so you don't have anyone cheating."

Otome's smile was indeed sweet, but it was also a demonic smile.

Shortly after, the students of class 1-2 began their training. This is the second time they do this, so most already know the trick so as not to overuse the energy.

Laila's group also did the same thing: running slowly even though they were the most left behind.

Unexpectedly, Charl was currently leading at an incredible speed. No one can even match him. In terms of speed and stamina, Charl may be the only 1-2 class man who is balanced with Kuro.

An hour passed, Alva, Alvi and Laila arrived at the first post. They rested in the same place as two days ago.

While resting, Laila sees Alva and Alvi taking off something from under her feet hidden behind trousers.

Laila's eyes opened wide when she realized that it was the same training weight as Kuro's.

"You two... Don't tell me that you ran this far with weights on both your legs?"

"Un.."

Alvi nodded.

She wears glasses, so Laila knows that she's Alvi.

"We've been wearing weights for over a week. Even the exercise 2 days ago also wore it." added Alva.

"Yes. even though our load is only 20 kg, this is still nothing compared to Kuro load which reaches 200kg."

"You gotta be kidding me?"

"No. This is Kuro's advice. We wear weights all the time, once we get used to them, the weights are added to the heavier loads."

"Yahhh we didn't want to at first, but after seeing the results of this exercise, we got more excited." Answer Alvi.

"the results? You mean your Leap magic]m?"

They both nodded at the same time.

"so apparently. It's only fitting that I feel that your Leap magic development is too fast."

Alva and Alvi smiled proudly.

"At that time we had already taken off our load, so it was only natural that we were faster."

"But why didn't Kuro come in today? Nothing happened to Kuro, right?"

"................."

Laila was silent because she did not know what to answer. But if Kuro is Shiro, then Laila doesn't have to worry about him.

- Elsewhere, precisely on the back of the flying black dragon, Laiko. Kuro was dressed all in black and wearing a black robe. He and Laiko were currently already above the Alf forest at an altitude of 200 meters.

"Hachooo's.. I think I got the flu."

Swiping snot at the nose, he looked down which was a dense forest overgrown with giant trees.

Alf Forest was the only forest area covered with giant trees in the empire. There was even an 80 meter tall tree. According to history, this happened because this forest used to be inhabited by elves who were able to use wood element magic.

"Laiko, let's go down."

Roaars...

Laiko roared small. After that Laiko and Kuro went down in a fairly wide forest gap.

After landing, Kuro looked around. There are only trees around.

"Alright, now all we need to do is wait and find out if there's an enemy around here."

Kuro then jumped onto a 30-meter-high tree and observed the surroundings. He closed his eyes to concentrate in order to hear the voice more clearly.

"?!"

After a while, Kuro was out of place and disappeared.

back to Lake Limph.

4 Hours passed after they started training. All the girls have arrived at their destination. There were no men because they got an extra 50km because of the punishment they had to accept. No. gabe. There were two men who were already in that place - Saft and Charl.

Saft didn't get any extra distance because of his past training he didn't use magic.

Meanwhile it was the first time for Charl, so there was no extra distance for him. More surprising than Charl is his running time which is only 3 hours 13 minutes.

Laila time 4 hours more. Although the same rank S, but the difference between them is quite large.

"?!"

Laila of course immediately stood up to greet Charl, while Alvi and Alva were still sitting on the spot.

"Although we already know each other's names, but we have not yet met. My name is Charl Ven Cellvain. I am the son of General Magil Ven Cellvain."

Charl became acquainted with the soft tone of speech. He's even very polite.

"If you already know our names, it looks like we don't have to tell you anymore."

"Un Unn..."

Alva and Alvi are clearly hostile towards Charl. Although they both knew Charl was handsome and the son of a general, it seemed that Charl was not very special in their eyes.

"I'm sorry. I just want to get closer to you guys, but I seem a little unwelcome here."

Charl remains calm despite the rejection from Alva and Alvi.

"They are like that, so don't think too much about it. Since you already know my name, I don't think I need to mention it, so just call me Laila."

"Greetings to Laila. You can call me Charl."

"Greetings, Charl."

The two of them shook hands as proof of the beginning of the relationship between them.

"Now what do you want? You didn't actually come here just to get acquainted, did you?"

Hearing Alva's question, Charl smiled slightly.

"Yes that's it. I actually have some business with Laila."

"Me?"

"Yahh. Will you be my permanent partner?"

"Eh?"

Laila surprised. Meanwhile Alva and Alvi fell silent as they had expected this to be the destination of Charl's arrival.

This was natural since Charl was the only person who did not have a partner yet.

"You're an S-rank magician like me, so why don't we pair up? We will definitely be able to win the Battle War easily. Moreover, my magic element is a wind element that has a match with your element. I'm a contractor and you're a user? Aren't we the perfect combination?"

".............."

Laila fell silent. He realizes that he and Charl have an amazing match. In fact they are arguably already destined to pair up, but-

"sorry. Too bad I had to turn down your offer."

"Eh? Why?"

"Well, I don't want to pair with you. That'sthat's all. Do you have a problem with that?"

""WOW""

For the first time, Alva and Alvi see Laila being assertive. Frankly this is the side of Laila they just found out about.

But the reaction was different from Charl's. He looks shocked.

"Why? What is less than me? Don't we have a lot of matches?"

"Then what?"

Laila crossed her arms to the chest.

"Eh?"

"Then since we have so many matches I should be your partner? I appreciate you, but if you keep asking me why I turned it down, I don't want to. You gotit?"

"..................."

Charl is speechless by Laila's refusal. He didn't expect to be rejected just because he wasn't liked.

Plok plok...

The sound of clapping is heard. Laila reflexively turned her head towards the source of the voice and found Alva and Alvi clapping with a faint smile.

"Eh? Why are you clapping?"

"You know. We just praise you."

"It seems you are sure of your heart. Aren't we?"

".............."

Upon hearing that, Laila's face turned red.

"Mouu. Let's go back to class. I'm tired."

"OKAY. We still have the rest of the cake from Astrea Palace. Let's eat together."

"Unnl.."

Alva, Alvi and Laila walk past Charl who is silent in silence.

The three of them now did not care about Charl, so they ignored him, but after a while

"Are you rejecting me because of that F-ranker?"

"?!"

Laila, Alva and Alvi stopped immediately when they heard Charl's words, but they did not turn to Charl who said loud enough.

"Is he better than the S rank? Or because he's your girlfriend? No, a promise-based girlfriend, right?"

"............"

Laila's eyes were wide open for a moment, but her relationship with Kuro was already a public secret, so Laila wasn't too surprised. But when Laila hears Charl's question, she is now convinced the reason for Charl's arrival to Kuryuu Academy is indeed to target her.

This had already happened a lot even while he was still at Shiryuu Magic School. .

"Laila?"

"I'm fine. But if you ask me why I rejected you because of Kuro, what's the problem for you?"

"Eh?"

"Look, don't be like you know everything about her. Don't make me hate you, Charl. Alva, Alvi let's go. Frankly I'm lazy to deal with this kind of thing."

Laila walked forward. Meanwhile Alva and Alvi smile at each other and follow Laila from behind.

Charl who felt humbled gritted his teeth and clenched his hands.

He was angry and annoyed, but after a while he loosened his fist and smiled faintly.

"This school is more interesting than I thought. Me me..."

This was the first time a thin and happy smile was seen on Charl's face.

He did not like it when it was considered lower than Kuro who was an F rank. This is what makes Charl wonder what kind of man Kuro is.

-- At the same time, Alf's forest.

"Ughhh!"

A man fell to the ground after receiving an attack of a long needle that pierced his neck.

It was not only the man who fell to the ground. Nearby were dozens of his friends who suffered the same injuries.

A shadow appeared. The shadow pulls out the needle stuck in the neck and inserts it into the pouch.

"I didn't think they were serious this time."

Kuro sighed deeply as he realized the number of enemies he had killed. The number he killed using needles was already 70 people more, and they were all not witches.

"It would be more challenging if one of them was a witch. Yeah.he's done. I'm sure sooner or later there'll be a slightly defiant witch."

After saying that, he pulled out the needle that stuck in the neck of the other corpse.

Although the number of needles he carried was over 200, he had to save money because he did not know the exact number of enemies.

The only interesting thing about the enemy is that they have something in common like the Red Crow members. Wearing anticristal armor and using an anticristal bullet gun.

"I hope I didn't make him mad..."

Kuro looked at the star-filled sky. At the same time he imagined Laila creating a fireball 10 meters in diameter.

"He is sweeter when he is angry. Um?"

Kuro turned his head towards the back because he heard a voice in the bush. Then he saw a pair of big red eyes appear behind the darkness.

"Laiko, if hungry don't eat them. You know they can make you sick to your stomach?"

Grrr...

Laiko comes out of the bush and walks behind Kuro while stepping on the dead body Kuro killed.

"Haaa... "

Kuro sighed and stopped stepping then threw the needle in his right hand towards 4 o'clock. He did that without even looking.

The needle shot out like a bullet at high speed and finally hit something in the bush.

After a while, the human body lay lifeless with a needle on its forehead.

Grpr...

Laiko wailed small

"I knew. You're hungry now. Geez.. Only this time I saw your hoarse dragon."

Gr..

"Alright, you can find food. You better hurry back because I feel like today we're gonna be busy."

Kuro sighed deeply. He received a mission of conducting a slightly troublesome escort.

The Sirei Mall assault case in the city of Areshia became a prelude and an important clue about the existence of an ordinary people's organization aimed at rebellion relying on armor and weapons from anticristals such as the Red Crow.

If traced back, they attacked by doing rebellion and wanted equality a little strange. It would be normal for the imperial government to put everything first for the witches, but so far most government policies are for the sake of all parties. You could even say the level of peace and satisfaction of the people exceeds other countries.

In other words, there is a party that does a motivation and also mind control to make as if the imperial government is unfair. Until now it was still unclear who the party was, but it was clearly related to the anticrystal that could be obtained easily.

Of course, this brings another problem. If ordinary people can get anticrystals, what about important people or a group of criminals?

In anticipation of the problems to come, the government carried out a massive purge. It doesn't matter whether the way to do it is good or not.

Even including using the second princess as bait.

"I can't believe that many eat bait this easily. Are they stupid?"

Kuro shook his head.

"Not that. Trap or not, it doesn't change the fact that Princess Diana came to the city of Areshia without full escort is a golden opportunity."

And that means, the amount he killed is still not enough.

"This is a really annoying mission..."

Kuro sighed deeply and looked towards the sky. There he imagined a smile from the person he loved